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Thursday, 10 August 2017

North Korea - the view from the Right

The
alt-right such as Alex Jones are so unable to criticise Trump on
anything that they are right behind his most bellicose actions and
don’t seem to be afraid of nukes at all – at least as it relates
to North Korea.

It
is hard to understand how these people can be ‘sort-of’ rational
about issues such as RussiaGate but so irrational and bellicose about
North Korea.

North
Korea Publicly Announces Plans To NUKE Guam by Mid-August

The
North is responding to Trump’s threat in a statement from its
military carried by state-run news agency KCNA. The statement says
that “only absolute force” can work on someone as “bereft of
reason” as Trump.

The
North Korean statement also says the military action its army “is
about to take” will
be effective for restraining America’s “frantic moves” in and
near the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.

It
says North Korea will complete a plan by mid-August for the “historic
enveloping fire at Guam,”
convey it to the commander in chief of its nuclear force and then
“wait for his order.” North Korea says it will “keep closely
watching the speech and behavior of the U.S.”

The
North Korean military is “awaiting orders” to unleash four
missiles at military bases near Guam — because officials believe
President Trump is too “bereft of reason” for negotiations, the
country’s state-run media reported Wedneday.

Guam
— which is known as the “Tip of the Spear” — is home to
thousands of American service members and their families.

North
Korea’s state-run news agency KCNA said Tuesday that the government
was looking at an “operational plan” that would send numerous
medium- to long-range strategic ballistic missiles toward the
US-owned Pacific island to counteract the bombers positioned there
and “send a serious warning signal to the US.”

Specifically,
the country claimed they would be firing Hwasong-12 rockets at
“Andersen Air Force Base” — where US strategic bombers
currently are waiting.

These
bombers “get on the nerves of the DPRK and threaten and blackmail
it through their frequent visits to the sky above South Korea,”
according to KCNA.

The
agency said the proposed strike plan could be carried out at “any
moment” — should leader Kim Jong Un choose to follow through with
it.

Last
month, US officials estimated there were at least 60 nuclear weapons
now in the hands of the North Koreans and ready for launch. But some
experts believe that number could be smaller.

It
was not immediately clear Tuesday whether the North’s plan to
strike Guam was in response to Trump’s earlier statements, but KCNA
did say the assault would be the result of recent US military
maneuvers in the region.

On
Monday, the US flew a pair of B1B bombers over the Korean peninsula
out of Andersen AFB as part of its “continuous bomber presence,”
the Pacific Air Forces reported.